I have arrived early with a theme camp. I have lined up for the gates to open for general admission at midnight. I have showed up a day or two after opening. Each is a different experience.

Arriving when the gates opened, we knew what neighborhood we wanted to be in. I prowled through slowly and found a spot. Immediately, a couple of guys who were car camping asked if it would be OK for me to orient my rig to provide them with maximum shade from the rising sun in the mornings. They ended up pretty much using the back side of my rig as one side of their perimeter. This provided them sun and wind protection. That year, we were closely surrounded by people, and our own little community sprang up with everyone socializing and sharing food, tools, etc..

It is good to be considerate with your generator. Burningman is a noisy place anyway, but also think of your exhaust. I was parked downwind from an elderly winnie which had a very noisy and polluting gennie. They fired it up every morning and engulfed the entire area in fumes. I was off the ground, but the tent campers in the area would get rather irritated. The owner of the winnie didn't seem to care. His fumes were bad enough that he set off my CO detectors once.

I don't use a gennie much since I don't run the AC. I have enough solar to charge my batteries. However, I have fired it up to run an electric ice cream maker. I have had neighbors or camp mates get into heat distress, and have fired up the AC to cool them down a couple of times. I always take some clothes drier exhaust flexible metal tubing and run my exhaust up to the roof. It's cheap and easy. I have done surveys, and my neighbors have always said that my exhaust was undetectable to them when I run the gennie.

When I arrived late one year, and I was more in the mood for some quiet anyway that year, so I parked on the periphery. That was nice too, but not as social from day to day at home. I had to go out to visit, or invite people over.